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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Gen. John p. Rea, Of Minnesota, Com
mander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic, says that the dependent pension
bill is to be urged at this session of Congress
in a new form and with more liberal pro-
visions than were contained in the bill vetoed
by President Cleveland. No doubt the Re-
pubhcaps hope the President will veto the
new bill if it comes before him, in order
that they may have something to talk about
next year. With Mr.. Clcveland's record on
pensions, they win have hard time con-
vincing the soldier element that he is not
their friend
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

The circumstances attending the selection
of Chicago for the next Republican Ma
tional Convention can be termed a straw
showing which way the wind blows. The
straw, in this instance, is of bigproportions,
and the wind that blew it amounts to a
hurricane. Mr.. Blaine wants the nomina-
ton of his party, and he will take it out
from under his thumb at the proper time
The country is to be congratulated that, in
Mr. Blaine's case, nomination and election
are not SYNONYMOUS.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Our republican form of government is
evidently good thing for ambitious for
eigners who come to this country. In the
present Congress there is a considerable
foreign element That body contains 8
Irishmen, Z Scotchmen, 2 Norwegians and a
scattering of men from other countries 1t
is stated that the Minnesota delegation, with
a single exception, is composed of men of
foreign birth. Mr.. Wilson is an Irishman,
Lind is a Swede, Mcdonald Scotchman
and Nelson Norwegian. Leopold Morse,
of Boston, and Mr.. Romeis, who defeated
Frank Hurd, of Ohio, are Bavarians. John
r. Caine, the Mormon delegate, was born
on the Isle of Man. Foreign birth is no
barrier to political preferment in this coun-
try.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Even Republicans differ with respect to
the Presidents message. The organ of the
Radical howlers and bloody screechers of
the great and growing West, the Chicago
Tribune, thus speaks of the document that
has produced such CONSERVATION in the Re-
publican Randall camp:
"The Presidents message is able and
statesman-like, business-iSe in style, per-
spicuous in statement, clear in its reasoning
and irrefutable in its conclusions. 1t rises
above party lines, and presents common
basis of patriotic craftsmanship on which
Republicans and Democrats are bound by
every consideration of the public welfare
and of political expediency to stand to
Qethern
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Mr. John S. Barbour, of Virginia, is at
last to receive recognition for his splendid
work for the Democratic party of his State,
and in honoring him with the position of
United States Senator Virginia will gain
immensely in her representation in the
higher branch of Congress. Mr.. Barbour's
abilities and services entitled him to the
nomination when Mahone's place was to be
filed, but Mr. Daniel captured the prize.
His selection by the Democratic cauc us
Thursday night was an act of justice long
delayed, and the unanimity displayed was
an evidence of the manner in which his
claims were regarded.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Mr. William O'Brien in Tullamore Jail is
doing perhaps more for the Irish cause than
he could at the editorial desk, and the
British government may discover that in
imprisoning him it has Numbered. His i'm
prisonment and treatment have turned
public sympathy in his favor, and may be
the cause of gaining advocates for home
rule. There seems to have been unnecessary
severity in his treatment.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Oscar Wilde's popularity in the country
seems likely to be eclipsed by that of Mr..
Joseph Chamberlain. The English seem
bound to set the fashion for us in some res
poets: Oscar Wilde gave us the sunhower,
and Mr. Chamberlain will prbobly create a
Juror for gold-rimmed spectacles. The
disciples of Mr. Wilde had an advantage
that will not exist in the threatened new
craze, viz, sunhowers were not very cost ly.
1t is only the comparatively few who can
indulge i'll high-priced spectacles.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10
Help in Making a Choice.

From the Cincinnati Tinies-Stdr tRep)
This is the time when perplexed fathers and
mothers, brothers and sisters uncles and aunts
and the rest of the world generally study the
papers to see what is to be bought for Christ
mas presents, The wise storekeeper will &C
cordingly advertise his goods as extensively and
attractively as he knows how 1t is general
truth that every dollar spent in Advertising will
bring in $40 in profit, but it is more applicable
in the holiday season than at any other time.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Mr.. Chamberlain continues to be the
social lion of Washington society, and no
gathering is counted complete without his
presence. Mr.. Chamberlain's heavy gold
trimmed spectacles always come in for a
share of attention, for, like the snowy
fieeced lamb that followed around after
Mary, they are inseparable from the Presi
dent of the Fisheries Commission.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Miss Lydia Poet, a young lady of Turin,
Italy, wanted to practice before the courts
of Italy, but was not allowed to do so. She
prepared herself as a lawyer, and is said to
have obtained high honers in all the exam
nations through which she had TO pass, but
when she appeared in court as an attorney,
she was not permitted to proceed. The
Court of Appeal sustained the action of the
lower court, and the Supreme Court upheld
that decision, so that Miss Poet will have to
find some other way of serving the public
She might come to this country and take
the field next year for the womans suffrage
candidate, but the most appropriate thing
for her to do seems to be to become a
PoeteSS
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Mr. Horatio King, of New York, has ad-
dressed letters to all the Senators and Rep
resentatives in Washington, urging that
they change Inauguration day from March
4 to the last Tuesday in April, which in
1889 will be April 30, the date Of Washing
tons Inauguration. He says that by this
arrangement Inauguration day will never
fall on Sunday If this is Mr.. Kings princi-
pal reason for the change, his proposition
will not meet with very general favor. In
auguration day very seldom falls on Sun
day
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

San Francisco is in the midst of another
social sensation. Joseph Oliver, son of the
late Marquis Oliver, who received the title
from the Pope on account of his large do
nations to the church, is one of San Fran
cisco's wealthiest young men, being worth
more than a million, and is a leader in
fashionable society. Young Mr.. divers
sister had a governess and companion who
was very pretty, and the young man fell in
love with her without any difficulty. An
engagement ensued, and it was agreed that
Oliver should go to Europe, while the young
lady remained in this country and devoted
her time to repairing defects in her educa-
ton. The arrangement was carried out,
and a few days ago Mr.. Oliver returned to
claim his bride, who had in the meantime
improved her opportunities for study. They
were privately married, and when the fact
leaked out it created a tremendous sensation
among the upper ten, and particularly, it is
supposed, among ambitious matrons who
had designed the young man for their Ara
bellas Tne couple will reside in San Fran
cisco, where Mr.. Oliver has an elegant
home, filled with costly pictures and other
art treasures. The young man seems to
have acted in a very sensible manner, and
his lot in life may possibly be as happy as if
he had welded a San Francisco belle.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

blaine and Ingalls," is the latest ticket
mentioned by the Republicans. Such a
ticket would perhaps have a surplus of bril-
liancy, but the crying need of the day is a
reduction of the surplus to figure that will
be adequate to the occasion, and that will
not be so large as to cause extravaganza out
lays that do more harm than good and bring
more uneasiness than security TO the people.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

The city of Quincy, ILL.,, recently gerry
wandered it's school wards so that all ne
gro children will have to attend the same
school The negroes did not like this, and
appealed to the courts. A decision was rem
dered day or two ago that the authorities
cannot be compelled to permit mixed
schools. The case will be carried to the
Supreme Court. Tho white people of the
North are no more tolerant of mixed schools
than are those of the South.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

The Birmingham Age, protection pa
per, prints communication in which the
statement is made that the anti Morgan
sentiment in Alabama is growing, and may
result in the Senator's defeat. Maj William
Arp calls Senator Morgan ''the most popu-
lar man in Alabama" It may be a ques-
ton with some of the Senator's political
enemies whether this assertion Of the Geor-
gia Observation-Disclosures comes under the
head Of hurnor or philosophy, but there
viii be no room for doubt when the Ala
hama Legislature sends Mr.. Morgan back
10 Washington with rush.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Mr.. Edward Atkinson is trying to solve
another problem by statistics. He says
that Americans as a nation have grown in
weight and height since the war. This New
York Herald suggests that when the surplus
is got away with and the revenue reduced,
the average American will feel as though
he were ten feet tall and weighed ton.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

The Florida Tobacco Plant, published at
Lake City, Columbia county, says that
numerous farmers of that section are ready
to make liberal arrangements with expert
enced tobacco growers who will come there
and engage in the cultivation of tobacco
Tobacco culture in Florida bids fair to as
sumo large proportions, and it is probable
that much money will be made by those
who engage in it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10
Falling Back on the Old Trick.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem)
The Republican press expected to make great
political capital out of President Cleyeland's
message, but its arguments are unanswerabe,
and In consequences they will have to resort to
their old trick of abusing him personally, be-
sides declaring the message too short.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10
He Guessed 1t.


IIVWt tFVt
Twenty pounds of new born Mccarthy
were added to the aggregate weight of the
human race on Monday. What A child
weighing twenty-seven pounds?" No, not ex-
actly that. well, then, twins, weighing thir-
teen and a half pounds each!" Guess once
more. mot trplets! Great Scott You
have it.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10
Atlanta's Whisky Souabble.

The whisky question is not yet settled in
Atlanta. During the canvass preceding the
prohibition election in November the anti
Prohibitionists pledged themselves, if they
were successful, to so restrict the liquor
trade that there would be no good ground
for complaining of abuses of it. The Pro-
hibitionists are rather anxious to know
what kind of restrictions the anti-Prohibi-
tionists propose to favor, and it is not i'm
probable that there will be great differ
ence of opinion with respect to the re-
strictions that ought to be adopted.
All agree that there must be a high Ii
cense, but the Prohibitionsts may regard
the license which the -prohibitionists
favor as very low license, while the anti
Prohibitionists may never consent to a
license that would be satisfactory to the
Prohibitionists.
A majority of the County Commissioners
are Prohibitionists, and they have fixed the
wholesale liquor license at 81 900. Those
who want to do wholesale liquor business
say they will not pay that sum, and there is
prospect Of legal contest to test the ques-
ton whether the County Commissioners
have authority to say what the license shall
be within the city's limits
The anti-Prohibitionists have control of
the City Council and it remains to be seen
what sort of a license they regard as q
proper restriction upon the retail liquor
traffic. 1t may be that they will decide in
favor of lower license than they intended
because of the action of the County Com
missioners with respect to the wholesale
license, or they may say to the County Com
missioners that if the wholesale license is
lowered the retail license in the city will be
raised in proportion. The steps leading to
the settlement of Atlanta's whisky squabble
will be watched with considerable interest.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10
TO CONTRACTORS,

S EALED BIDS are solicited for building 491
- running feet of brick wall, ~ feet high
around the new jail lot; also for 491 running
feet of galvanized iron covering to this wall;
also 80 running feet of iron railing. Plans and
specifications can be seen at the County
Engineers office, Exchange Building batween
handed to JOHN R. DILLON, Clerk Commits
sioners Chatham County, by IL NJ December
10th, 1887. Right reserved to reject any or all
bids. EDWARD J. THOMAS,
County Engineer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10

Mr.. Blaine appears to be enjoying mar
veously robust health at present. His
friends do not seem to get tired of talking
about it. Is there anything suspicious
In this!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10
CURRENT COMMENT.
Good AL the Time.

From the Memphis Avdldnche (Dem)
Revenue reform is a mighty good subject for
the fathers of families in we merrie ChrstmaSse
TYNE as well as at other times
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-08
THE OLD WORLD.

The Empress Eugene is on her way
to Balmoral Castle to visit the Queen.
A very destructive conhagration has
occurred at Veszprem, Hungary, 200 houses
being destroyed.
Gen. Ferron, French minister of war,
has ordered the 18th army corps to COM
mence mobilizing.
The Kabbabish tribe has defeated
the Deryisches in the Baggara country,
killing 800 of them.
The Parnellites are irritatcd over the
refusal of the government to extend the
allotments to Ireland.
A fire which started in the Cafe
Egyptian at Carlo destroyed whole block
of buildings The loss is heavy.
The marquis of Salisbury will remain
at the Chalet Cecil, for which he has just de-
parted, till the end of the autumn.
The London papers generally speak
favorably of the joint commission ap-
pointed to settle the fishery dispute.
King Humbert has offered to the
crown prince of Germany the use of the
royal chateau at Caserta for the winter.
Numerous tenant farmers in County
Limerick have instructed their solicitors to
apply for a revision of the rents under the
new land act.
A dispatch from Teheran says it is
reported that Ayoub Khan is still on Per
sian territory and is trying to enter
Afghanistan.
The collapse of the California wheat
ring caused considerable agitation in the
marked decline.
By collision in the port of Antwerp
between the British steamer Salisbury
from Philadelphia and the British steamer
John Anderson both vessels were badly
damaged. The Salisbury was afterwards
| beached.
Mr.. Chamberlain does not expect to
leave for America till the middle of Novem-
Der. He will address a Unionist gathering
in London just prior to his departure.
In the elections for members of the
Second Chamber OF the States General in
Holland the returns from twenty-five dis
tricts show the election of twenty seven
Liberals, ten Orthodox Professionals and
thirteen Catholics.
Baron Kosjek, Austrian minister at
Teheran, has been transferred to Athens,
and Baron Trautenberg, Austrian Minister
at Athens has been transferred to Berne.
Gen. Thoemmel has been appointed to sue
coed Baron KOsjek as Austrian minister at
Persia.
In consequence of the i'll treatment
of Jews, at Navgorod, Russia, Gen.
Barancff has sent circulars to the au-
| thorities ordering them to adopt stringent
to guarantee safety to all subjects of the
Gar without distinction.
The Russian mission, which recently
went to Kashgar, has been compelled to re-
turn to Khomand Members of the mission
so outraged public opinion in Kashgar by
insulting Mohammedan women that a riot
against the Russians was provoked. In
this everal Russians were killed.
During the performance of the
"Romany Rye" in the the theater at Exeter
England, Monday evening, before a large
audience, the theatre took fire and a panic
ensued of the most frantic and indescribable
proportions and in the exit from the build
ing $50 people, 100 men and boys and 80
women lost their lives and large number
were injured by burns and being trampled
upon in the mad rush. The theatre was
new one, with all modern appointments and
one of the prettiest in the kingdom.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-08
ner's jury held the company criminally re,

ner's jury held the company criminally 70,
spolsible.
Near Lancaster, Ky. Peter and Hen
derson Green, brothers, while drunk,
opened fire without cause ON Ed Cooley.
The latter replied with a shotgun and a big
revolver, killing Peter Green outright and
MORALLY wounding Henderson Green.
George Mount and James Grady,
prominent farmers of Nodaway county,
Missouri, fought duel with knives Friday,
near Marysville. Ii was a desperate en-
counter Both men were wounded, Mount
mortally. He was stabbed 2S times.
Unprecedented rains have fallen
throughout North Texas. All the rivers are
over their banks and many washouts are
reported. Eleven persons have been
longed to a family named Schmidt.
The Ohio Oil Company has been
formed at Lima by producers, who intend
TO market their own product and cut loose
from the Standard Oil Company in that re-
gard. The capital stock is $500,0O0
One hundred Knights of Labor struck
at Cleveland, Ohio, at the factory OF the
al new fOremen have recently been employ
ed.
A story comes from Indianapolis to
effect that 126 persons lost their lives in the
Chatsworth wreck-that the actual extent
of the calamity was concealed.
The paper mills at Coshocton, Ohio,
have been destroyed by fire.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-08
PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS.

The Democrats of Pennsylvania held
their state convention at Allentown ON the
3lst. Among those prominent were Con
gressmen =. J. Randall and W. l.. Scott, the
latter being chairman of the committee on
resolutions. The resolutions reaffirm the
Chicago platform of 1884, fully endorses
the administration of President Cleveland
as wise, sagacious and patriotic, approves
the acts of Congress regarding immigration
ard convict labor, favors liberal pensions to
deserving Cuion soldiers and sailors, and
refer to the action of the present admins
tration in adding to the pension rolls a
larger number than was ever before placed
thereon in a corresponding period, while at
the same time protecting the treasury from
fraudulent claims, as proof of this fact I;
points with pride TO the fact that since the
Democratic party has been in power in any
branch of the federal government, not one
acre of the public lands has been granted to
corporations, nor has any land grant been
revived or extended; condemns the Republi-
can legislature of the state for its crime
against the commonwealth in placing upon
the people a million dollars of taxes that
should have been borne by corporation; ex-
presses sympathy with Parnell and Glad
Stone in their efforts for the oppressed of
Ireland; condemns monopolies and de-
mands the restrictions of corporate power;
-commends the National administration for
restoring to the people lQ0,OO0O00 acres of
the public domain wrongfully held by cor
poratiOns Hon. j. Ross Thompson of Erie
was nominated for Supreme Court Judge
and Bernard J. McGrann of Lancaster for
Treasurer of State.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-08

there, but rather it Is suspected that he is
suffering from the effects of a wound re-
ceived from the pistol of the Nihilist, who,
disguised as an officer of the guards, fired at
the Emperor as he was journeying from st.
Petersburg 10 Krasazselo few DAYS ago.
The International Medical Congress
began its session at Washington, ID. c., on
the 5th, there being 5000 physicians from
the United States and four to five hundred
from abroad. President Cleveland opened
the Congress and Secretary Bayard de-
livered an address of welcome. DR.. Nathan
Smith Davis was chosen President of the
Congress. In point of numbers the congress
exceeded that 1881 at London and 1884 at
Copenhagen.
Up to Sept. 1, the total coinage of
standard silver dollars amounts to $40, 300,
III OF this amount SD, 9S7 $50 are in
circulation against SD, 500 on Sept. l,
1886. Government receipts for August
were very heavy, aggregating So, 6l9, ll5,
against 1872, l95, 326 in August last year.
The customs receipts were 81, $50, 76S, or
g., 600, 900 more than in August, 1886. The
internal revenue receipts were $40, So, 39S,
against S9,697, 934 in August, 1886, and
receipts from miscellaneous sources we're
nearly half million more than in August
year ago. The expenditures during
August were SIS, III, l62-about 500, 900 less
than in August, 1886.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-08
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

Prince ThokOre Sahib, of Limbdi,
called at the White House and paid his re-
spects TO the President.
1t is the intention of the President to
spend the next few weeks at Oak View. He
regards this as his vacation time.
Rear Admiral John Lee Davis has
been received from duty as president of the
retiring board and placed ON the retired
lis.
A party of Dutch naval officers at
tatched to the Queen Emma, now lying at
New York, made an informal call on the
President.
As Judge McCue declines. the Presi-
dent has appointed Prof. G.. Brown Goode,
assistant director of the national museum
to be commissioner Of fish and fisheries, vice
Prof. :. r. Baird, deceased.
Supervising Inspector General Du-
mont has decided that the bulls and boilers
of all steam yachts, no matter how small,
must undergo inspection, and that their
pilots and engineers must be licensed.
The suspension of f. S. Wheeler &
20. at New hdNsLs SouiA-f VIII bTdnsneS at
New York Baltimore, Chicago and Liver
pool. importers of bar iron, steel, tin. etc, is
announced, with Indebtedness approxima-
ting S2,OOO,0OO.
Treasury department officials estimate
that the reduction in the public debt during
August will be about $5,50O.OOO This COM
paratively light monthly reduction $ &C
counted for 10y the unusual heavy pension
draft for August, which amounted to fully
$1,000 co.
Notwithstanding the large pension
payments this month, amounting to SIC.
10000, the receipts Tor the month to date
are more than s5,5OO,0O0 in excess of the
total expenditures during the same period.
The receipts have averaged over sl,O0O,0O a
day and now amount to So, sl4,5S5.
The President viii issue a proelama-
ton allowing the free entry of the arms,
muitions and baggage Of such foreign
military organizations as may desire 20
participate in the National Military En-
campment and Drill, TO be held in Chicago
in October next, upon satisfactory assur-
ances being given that none of the arms
shall be permitted to remain in this country.
The report from Copenhagen that the
Gar is i'll with rheumatism, and carries his
arm in a sling because of the pain arising
from that malady, is not generally believed